| 2H4 IV.ii.80 | [Mowbray to Westmorland] You wish me health in very happy season, / For I am on the sudden something ill |
| AC I.ii.83 | [Cleopatra to Charmian, of Antony] on the sudden / A Roman thought hath struck him |
| Cor I.iv.52 | [First Soldier to Lartius, of the Volsces] who upon the sudden / Clapped to their gates |
| H8 IV.ii.96 | [Patience to Griffith, of Katherine] Do you note / How much her grace is altered on the sudden? |
| RJ II.iii.46 | [Romeo to Friar, of Juliet] on a sudden one hath wounded me / That's by me wounded |
| Tit I.i.396 | [Marcus to Titus] How comes it that the subtle Queen of Goths / Is of a sudden thus advanced in Rome |
| TS I.i.144 | [Tranio to Lucentio] is it possible / That love should of a sudden take such hold? |